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The three types of traditional Japanese theater are Noh, Kabuki, and Bunraku. Noh is the original Japanese theatrical form, and uses music and symbols to allude to past events or myths in Japanese history. There are five different types of Noh plays, ranging from focusing on Gods to the loss of a loved one. Kabuki is a theatrical form developed in 1596 to appeal to the mass public; that is, the common people and merchants. Women were forbidden to perform in Kabuki plays, though it was founded by a woman. Kabuki plays traditionally feature bright costumes and lots of ...

The government has two primary means to exploit the media, namely access and control. In terms of access, the government’s ability to exploit and manipulate the media is based on two facts of life. First, government actions are acutely important to almost every facet of life. Accordingly, people, business, and society have normal interest in knowing what the government, and people in government are saying and thinking. Second, the vast majority of society learns about what the government is thinking and saying from the media. As a consequence, the government can influence the media by providing or denying ...

Implementation of a Biometric Gun Control Technology

Implementation of a Biometric Gun Control Technology

Organization Background

Keystone Sporting Arms (KSA), LLC is a gun manufacturer company located in Pennsylvania, United States. It was founded by Bill and Steve McNeal who were firearm auctioneers. The two were fascinated by a Chipmunk .22 caliber rifle that was presented to them by a gentleman in 1994 during one of the auctioning days ("Keystone Sporting Arms, LLC", n.d.). The duo contacted the manufacturer who offered to sell the company but once the deal didn’t materialize, they took upon themselves to start manufacturing of riffles. With support from design engineers, trademarks experts, ...

The Confederate Flag has long been a symbol of the American South. Many claim that the flag represents a racist culture, one that fought to keep blacks in slavery, and one that continues to try to limit equal rights for African-Americans. Others believe that the Confederate Flag is just a symbol of Southern history and pride. Recent events in the country have brought this controversy to the forefront of American consciousness once again. The racial connotations of the Confederate flag originate from its beginning. It was first developed as the battle flag for Robert E. Lee, who commanded the ...

The New York Times article titled Why Americans Can’t Vote, published on April 16, 2016 by its editorial board, paints a bleak picture of the current state of the electoral system. The main argument focuses on recent trends in primary elections following up to disenfranchise voters from participating in November for the Presidential elections, backed by incidents such as Maricopa County polling places fiasco and the state of the technology, process and law governing the national elections. Even with the truth in its report, the article fails in its estimation of its points. In Maricopa County, the voters ...

(a) A hierarchical structure and organization by functional specialty as enunciated by Weber’s principles of modern bureaucracy are two important facets of a government organization because they both serve as control tools in the efficient delivery of basic services to the public. Hierarchy represents the classic command-and-control relationship that is a defining feature in many organizational settings, including governments. A hierarchical structure permits those in the higher rung of the hierarchy to review the conduct of activities by those in the lower rung. It serves as a control tool that assures democratic accountability or to put it bluntly, ...

Many scholars have been quoted trying to assert the role of the media in a numbers of dichotomies, some providing us with assessment models, which are either, proven or still on the piloting stage. Nordenstreng, Christians, Glasser and Mcquail’s model provide us with one of such proven models; a model in which they argue the role of the media in frameworks of five paradigms namely; Liberal-individualistic paradigm, Social responsibility paradigm, Cultural Negotiation Paradigm, Administrative Paradigm, and lastly Critical Paradigm (Fourie, 2002). In as much as one might tries to assess the role of the media it is also imperative to ...

Discussion Question Week 7

A cause and effect essay can be defined as a paper that explores what consequences an action or aspect can have on people, life, and the environment in which it occurs. In the case of video games, a cause and effect essay would discuss what video games do to society and how it changes the people who play them. It is often argued that the presence of sex and violence in video games has the effect of desensitizing children to these things, making them less afraid or naïve about them. The concern is that violent and sexual video games are ...

Different news stations often report the same story (or stories related to one another) in very different ways. This is largely because of their political ethos and their attempts to reach their market and readership. The events in Libya are no different: tired of living under Gadhafi’s dictatorship, the Libyan people are revolting to try and remove him from power. Following the success of similar protests in neighbour countries, Egypt and Tunisia, Libya is fighting for its freedom from a man who shows no qualms in using force to supress his people, even now when the world is watching. ...